Dennis W. Weatherby has accepted a position as the first director of
the college's Minority Engineering Program, according to Engineering
Dean William F. Walker. He comes to Auburn from the Wilberforce, Ohio,
Central State University where he served as assistant professor of water quality in that institution's International Center for Water Resources Management
since 1994. He began his duties in the College of Engineering in August.
In addition to his tenure at CSU's water resources center, which he
joined in 1989 as an academic advisor and recruiter, he has worked in private
industry as well, first for the Proctor and Gamble
Company, and then for Morton International's Whittaker
Corporation. He graduated from CSU in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, and from the University of Dayton
in 1984 with a master's in chemical engineering.
Weatherby will work for the recruitment,
retention and enhancement of minority students in the
College of Engineering, who currently comprise some
6 percent of enrollment.
For the past six years Weather-by has served
as the primary recruiter, advisor and counselor for
students in the environmental program at CSU, which is
a historically black university located just east of
the Dayton metropolitan area. Under his leadership, the program experienced
a more than 400 percent growth in student enrollment with a retention level
of better than 80 percent.
Weatherby also served as chair of an externally sponsored undergraduate
science symposium to showcase research conducted by students that involved
six area colleges and universities.
Weatherby is a native of Brighton, Alabama, and a graduate of
Midfield High School.
"He knows the state, and has a working familiarity with the Auburn
campus as well," Walker notes. "He is
committed to a continuous quality improvement approach to the college's overall
mission, as well as the personal goals he has set for himself as director of
the minority engineering program. His blend of university and corporate
experience should serve him well in this new capacity."
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